Two-seated wagon



- (No Model.)

G. E. SPARE.

TWO SEATED WAGON.

No. 365,648. Patented June 28, 1887.

UNITED STATES GEORGE E. SPARE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TWO SEATED WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,648, dated June 28, 1887.

* Application fiietl March 14, 1887. Serial No. 230,801. tNomodel.)

To all whom it mdy concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SPARE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Two-Scat Vagons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and. exact description of the same, and which said drawings co nstitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of the carriage with the front seat in its upright position; Fig. 2, a side View showing the front seat and upper panels turned forward.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of two seated wagons commonly called Surrey wagons, and in which the sides of the body extend up so high as to meet the seat-bottom, the sides of the body between the front and rear seat being cut away for the convenience of entering or leaving the carriage to or from the back seat; the sides of the body forward of the front seat cut away so as to leave a clear opening between the front seat and dash. The back of the front seat necessarily contracts, the space forward of the rear seat; but yet the body leaves sufficient room for the feet and legs of the occupants of the back seat. In entering or leaving the carriage, however, the back of the front seat interferes, and to obviate this difficulty the front seat has been hinged to the body at its front edge, so as to be turned forward to clear the passage into or from the back seat. The part of the body on which the front seat'rests, however, still stands in the way of the person so entering or leaving the back seat.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty; and it consists in dividing the body longitudinally below the front seat, and attaching the upper parts of the body permanently to the front seat, and hinging the seat with the parts of the body attached to the stationary parts of the body below, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the body of the carriage, the sides of which are of a height corresponding to the height of the seat from the floor of the carriage, so that the back seat, B, may set directly upon and is fixed to the upper edge ofthe rear portion ofthe body, and in the usual manner. The front seat, 0, is in like manner fixed to the body forward of the rear seat, and upon what for convenience I will call the upper panel, D, of the front portion ofthe body. The sides of the body between the rear seat and the upper panels, D, are cut away, so as to clear the passage between the seats.

Instead of hinging the front seat directly to the front edge of the upper panels, D, as in the usual construction, 1. fix the seat 0 pen mancntly to the upper port-ion or panels, D, and separate the upper panels, D, from the lower portions of the body, and hinge the upper panels to the fixed lower portions, as at a. The panelsD include the extension I) into the recess between the two seats, and so that when the frontseat is in its upright position, as seen in Fig. 1, the carriage appears as a common construction of Surrey wagon; but when it is desired to open the passage to the rear seat the front seat, 0, together with the upper portions or panels, D, of the sides there to attached, is turned forward upon the hinge a, as seen in Fig. 2, thus leaving an extended clear space into the carriage forward of the rear seat, and without the obstruction of the upper panels or portions of the body, which usually remain stationary with the body. This construction adds very little to the cost of the carriage, but overcomes serious objections to the previous construction.

I claim- In a two-seat wagon substantially such as described, the rear seat fixed directly .to the upper edge of the rear portion of the body, the upper panel, D, of the front portion of the body separated from but hinged to the lower portion of the body at the front, and the second or front seat permanently attached to the upper edge of the said upper panels or front portion of the body, substantially as de scribed, and whereby the said front seat and the upper panels of the body may be turned forward to clear the passage to the rear seat.

GEO. E. SPARE.

Witnesses:

FRED O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

